Perhaps everyone in society should submit to an MMPI test every 5 years? Then the NWO could weed out their undesirables, keep the perverts who will be soldiers to kill whomever they are brainwashed to kill such as Christians and Jews, and lock everyone else up?
IMO all students should have mental status exams. The MMPI would be nice; it takes a slow reader a few hours to do but has stability of results built into it (anyone with a mental disorder has real difficulty cheating on it). It can be processed through computers (does not have to be hand evaluated by a professional.) BUT then we need psychologists to be assigned to schools, not counselors who visit once in a while.
Students who are unbalanced need professional help. IMO onsite professionals also understand the environment better which helps them relate to the student better and vice versa. We failed our youth when we quit offering free counseling and MSEs.
Offering free burials and counseling after the fact is a poor solution.
... You do realize the problem is not that people need to be better at mentally coping with being shot at while at school, right? That all kids in high school shouldn’t need a mental health exam to protect somebody else’s owning a gun. And what if a kid gets flagged for being at risk? Do we take his parents guns? Do we force them into mental health treatment? Do the rights of a generation become vapor to protect somebody else’s desire to own a gun? And where do we get the funding for the tests, the treatments, the screenings, the medical care? People are working overtime to dismantle ACA, cut public funding to social services, and school funding per student in the US is the lowest among every industrialized country in the world. How are we going to front this billion dollar drive to protect people’s right to own guns that can mow down concertgoers from a quarter of a mile away?
The problem is that some people have no problem say “it’s my right to own a gun and you can pry it from my cold, dead fingers” when in reality the blood being used to pay for that credo comes from the bodies of other people’s kids.
Militants storm a school in Africa and abduct the students and slaughter the teachers, people pound their fists in tables and scream about third world heck holes. Somebody murders elementary school children with a weapon that left them so mangled and maimed they couldn’t get an accurate body count for several hours, then torments the families of these children to the point where families had to move, change their names, and deal with constant stalkers and fringe groups who want to punish them for their kids dying and starting a (short lived) discussion on gun control?
Well, that’s just the price of freedom in America.
And you can say it’s some lone wolf, mentally unstable individual, that it’s not the gun, it’s the nut behind the gun and the mental health system that’s failed them... But 1,500 mass shootings in 1,800 days? That’s a lot of nutty lone wolves who seem to all like causing mayhem the same exact way. And judging by how hard a lot of people are fighting to cut funding for social services and intervention programs, it’s not like people are working to fix that problem in light of all of these massacres either.
And, to be perfectly blunt, as a parent who sat outside of a locked down elementary school after somebody shot up a hospital less than half a mile away before then turning up on the road that lead to the school, I don’t particularly feel like having somebody who wants to own a gun they don’t need using my kid as the offering of the day to gun rights. I don’t want the phone call some of the Sandy Hook Parents got... “Hi, this is the local police, there was a school shooting at your kid’s school... Are you one of the parents who is waiting for their kid to come home or looking for updates? Because we found a number of kids huddled in the embrace of their deceased teacher in your child’s classroom’s bathroom, but the remains of the teachers and students are so badly brutalized that we can’t identify the bodies or give accurate numbers of the victims... Can you come with us and look at these blood soaked clothes, this bullet-tattered backpack, this partial shoe and tell me, do they look familiar?”
And here’s guessing all the “it’s the gunman, not the gun” folks aren’t signing up for that phone call either, because nobody wants or should have to get that call and then hear people chalk it up to the price of freedom.